If you ran into me a few years ago and asked me "What is enlightenment?", I likely would have said that enlightenment is a collection of insights that changes your perspectives about life. This answer would have been based on my thoughts and subjective experiences. However, our thoughts are habitual processes that derive from cultural conditioning, not based on direct experiences.
Usually when something happens in our life, even if it's profound, we eventually go right back to the habitual processes of cultural conditioning because it's the only way we know how to filter our experiences of life.
Now if you ask me "What is Enlightenment?", my answer wouldn't be an answer based in opinion, habits of repetitious vocabulary, or second-hand knowledge. I would look into my present experience, feel what is here to say, and listen for the answer.
It's the difference between subjective experiences based on conditioning and direct experience based in silence. Subjective experiences are perspective experiences. While the present experience is the unhooking of all pin-point perspectives.
Usually when something happens in our life, even if it's profound, we eventually go right back to the habitual processes of cultural conditioning because it's the only way we know how to filter our experiences of life.
Now if you ask me "What is Enlightenment?", my answer wouldn't be an answer based in opinion, habits of repetitious vocabulary, or second-hand knowledge. I would look into my present experience, feel what is here to say, and listen for the answer.
It's the difference between subjective experiences based on conditioning and direct experience based in silence. Subjective experiences are perspective experiences. While the present experience is the unhooking of all pin-point perspectives.